Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications

A textbook for a graduate or senior undergraduate course introducing chemical process safety. Neither students nor instructors are expected to have a background in safety, but to be familiar with chemical processes. The 1990 edition is here updated to include new safety technology and references, glean from another decade of teaching experience, and add new chapter- end problems Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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A resource text including the principles, guidelines, and calculations necessary for the safe design and operation of chemical plants. Numerous worked-out examples and exercises illustrate the practical application of principles. The coverage includes: fires and explosions; vessel overpressure protection; hazards identification and risk assessment; source models; and dispersion modeling. For beginning and more advanced practicing engineers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Daniel A. Crowl is the Herbert H. Dow Professor for Chemical Process Safety at Michigan Technological University. The author of numerous books and instructional materials on process safety, he also serves on several committees of the AICHE/CCPS.

Joseph F. Louvar retired as director of BASF's Chemical Engineering Department to become a professor at Wayne State University, specializing in chemical process safety, risk assessment, and the design of experiments. He has authored many publications on process safety and chairs the Undergraduate Education Committee of the CCPS.